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It is not an accident that the US Congress has been battling with President Bill Clinton over this year's budget. Both are under global pressure. Each must take care that their compromise does not wreck science.
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| | Europe's black sheep 222
EU member states spending too little on research and development need carrots as well as sticks.
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| | Howard Hughes to shift focus of support away from institutions 223
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/378223a0
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| | Dirac given his place next to Newton 223
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/378223b0
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| | Columbia takes over reins at Biosphere 2 223
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/378223c0
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| | France backs off promise to boost UN AIDS programme 224
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/378224a0
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| | Geneticist quits in protest at 'genes and violence' claim 224
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/378224b0
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| | Russian fund gets off the ground — at last 225
Tony Reichhardt & Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/378225a0
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| | Political muscle for French science 225
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/378225b0
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| | Montreal wins bid for biodiversity centre 225
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| | Collaboration rules should reflect investment 226
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/378226a0
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| | Japanese science law could bring control as well as cash 227
Stephen Barker
doi:10.1038/378227a0
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| | Geologist 'victimized' for role in fraud case 227
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/378227b0
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| | European Commission seeks clearer goals for space research 227
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/378227c0
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| | Italy recruits new faculty under old rules 228
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/378228a0
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| | EI Nino centre is forecasting 'first' 228
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/378228b0
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| | 'Genetic art' builds cryptic bridge between two cultures 229
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/378229a0
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| | Democrats rally to defend science from Congressional cuts 229
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/378229b0
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| | French nuclear tests at Mururoa 230
Charles S. Shapiro
doi:10.1038/378230a0
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| | French nuclear tests at Mururoa 230
J. E. Dumont
doi:10.1038/378230b0
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| | Historic apoptosis 230
Peter G. H. Clarke & Stephanie Clarke
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| | Colloidal crystals model real world 231
Neat Australian experiments have shown that an artificial three-dimensional colloid can be a good model of the real world of crystalization in the lab as well as on paper.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/378231a0
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| | Knee-deep in cosmic rays 232
Stephen P. Reynolds
doi:10.1038/378232a0
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| | From stress to cognition 233
Stafford L. Lightman
doi:10.1038/378233a0
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| | Profiles of the past 234
David A. Peel
doi:10.1038/378234a0
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| | Correction 235
doi:10.1038/378235a0
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| | A microbial minimalist 236
Barry R. Bloom
doi:10.1038/378236a0
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| | Mutations caught in the act 237
Myron F. Goodman
doi:10.1038/378237a0
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| | Silicon sees the light 238
David A. B. Miller
doi:10.1038/378238a0
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| | Out of Africa and into Asia 239
Bernard Wood & Alan Turner
doi:10.1038/378239a0
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| | Australopithecus goes west 239
B. W.
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| | Flying boat 240
David Jones
doi:10.1038/378240a0
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| | Sound attenuation by sculpture 241
R. Martínez-Sala, J. Sancho, J. V. Sánchez, V. Gómez, J. Llinares & F. Meseguer
doi:10.1038/378241a0
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| | Why leaves are sometimes red 241
Kevin S. Gould, David N. Kuhn, David W. Lee & Steven F. Oberbauer
doi:10.1038/378241b0
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| | Protecting HIV databases 242
B. T. M. Korber, G. Learn, J. I. Mullins, B. H. Hahn & S. Wolinsky
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| | Protecting HIV databases 243
L. Briant , J. Puel, C. M. Wade, A. J. Leigh Brown & M. Guyader
doi:10.1038/378243a0
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| | The oldest fossil lichen 244
T. N. Taylor, H. Hass, W. Remy & H. Kerp
doi:10.1038/378244a0
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| | The enigma of the natural killer cell 245
Jenny E. Gumperz & Peter Parham
doi:10.1038/378245a0
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| | Magnetism of the carbon allotropes 249
R. C. Haddon
doi:10.1038/378249a0
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| | Evidence for shock acceleration of high-energy electrons in the supernova remnant SN1006 255
K. Koyama, R. Petre, E. V. Gotthelf, U. Hwang, M. Matsuura, M. Ozaki & S. S. Holt
doi:10.1038/378255a0
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| | Quantum confinement and light emission in SiO2/Si superlattices 258
Z. H. Lu, D. J. Lockwood & J.-M. Baribeau
doi:10.1038/378258a0
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| | Femtosecond molecular dynamics of tautomerization in model base pairs 260
A. Douhal, S. K. Kim & A. H. Zewail
doi:10.1038/378260a0
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| | Cell-free synthesis of polyketides by recombinant erythromycin polyketide synthases 263
Rembert Pieper, Guanglin Luo, David E. Cane & C. Khosla
doi:10.1038/378263a0
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| | Global interdecadal and century-scale climate oscillations during the past five centuries 266
Michael E. Mann, Jeffrey Park & R. S. Bradley
doi:10.1038/378266a0
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| | The 'Daly gap' as a magmatic catastrophe 270
C. C. Bonnefoi, A. Provost & F. Albarède
doi:10.1038/378270a0
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| | The first australopithecine 2,500 kilometres west of the Rift Valley (Chad) 273
Michel Brunet , Alain Beauvilain, Yves Coppens, Emile Heintz, Aladji H. E. Moutaye & David Pilbeam
doi:10.1038/378273a0
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| | Early Homo and associated artefacts from Asia 275
Huang Wanpo, Russell Ciochon, Gu Yumin, Roy Larick, Fang Qiren, Henry Schwarcz, Charles Yonge, John de
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| | The neural basis of the central executive system of working memory 279
Mark D'Esposito, John A. Detre, David C. Alsop, Robert K. Shin, Scott Atlas & Murray Grossman
doi:10.1038/378279a0
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| | Specificity of monosynaptic connections from thalamus to visual cortex 281
R. Clay Reid & Jose-Manuel Alonso
doi:10.1038/378281a0
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| | Displacement of corticotropin releasing factor from its binding protein as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease 284
Dominic P. Behan, Stephen C. Heinrichs, Juan C. Troncoso, Xin-Jun Liu, Claudia H. Kawas, Nicholas Ling & Errol B. De Souza
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| | Urocortin, a mammalian neuropeptide related to fish urotensin I and to corticotropin-releasing factor 287
Joan Vaughan, Cynthia Donaldson, Jackson Bittencourt, Marilyn H. Perrin, Kathy Lewis, Steven Sutton, Raymond Chan, Andrew V. Turnbull, David Lovejoy, Catherine Rivier, Jean Rivier, Paul E. Sawchenko & Wylie Vale
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Mingxia Huang, Guoqiang Gu, Edwin L. Ferguson & Martin Chalfie
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Wuxiong Cao, Scott S. Tykodi, Mark T. Esser, Vivian L. Braciale & Thomas J. Braciale
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Martin Turner, P. Joseph Mee, Patrick S. Costello, Owen Williams, Abigail A. Price, Linda P. Duddy, Michael T. Furlong, Robert L. Geahlen & Victor L. J. Tybulewicz
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Alec M. Cheng, Bruce Rowley, William Pao, Adrian Hayday, Joseph B. Bolen & Tony Pawson
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Bei Yao, Yuhua Zhang, Sylvie Delikat, Shalini Mathias, Subham Basu & Richard Kolesnick
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With scientific literacy now a necessity rather than a luxury, children's science books have taken on a new importance. James Trefil introduces Nature's first children's books supplement with a review of some recent reference volumes*. Where possible, details of availability and price in the United States and the United Kingdom are given throughout the supplement. All readers should check prices before ordering.
James Trefil
doi:10.1038/378311a0
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Tim Brosnan
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Graham Farmelo
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Henry Petroski
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Peter Nisbet
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Alfred Mallet & Edward A. Knapp
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| | Global expeditions 314
Anne Surridge
doi:10.1038/378314c0
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| | Depicting the facts of life 315
Sandra Knapp
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| | Digital nature 317
S. K.
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| | Fossils for the next generation 317
Douglas Palmer
doi:10.1038/378317b0
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Alan Maryon Daw's
doi:10.1038/378318a0
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| | Making sense 318
Fran Balkwill
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| | A guide to what's out there 319
Barry Madore
doi:10.1038/378319a0
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Ros Cotter
doi:10.1038/378320a0
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| | Energetic reading 320
Ian Fells
doi:10.1038/378320b0
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Trevor Davies
doi:10.1038/378320c0
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